Those are lovely paper pieces!!! I spent the first week of January chopping up our 2020 calendar and my 2020 planner into squares for envelopes, pieces big enough for notes & letters, and pieces for other random crafting 
It was therapeutic to “destroy” that terrible year! lol
Today my goal is one (or more) ATC. I think I need to set the pocket letter aside and come back with fresh eyes later 
My secondary goal is to check the mail and write a letter or two
that would make a great cross stitch. because. snakes. gotta keep 'em separated.
So how do we feel about the separation of church and snake?
Your bird photos are just beautiful! I support the National Audubon Society so I get their magazine and calendar each year…you should see about submitting some of your pictures!
I support that.
Feb 1 I did a bit of hand sewing on this quilt to finish it off
Feb 2 I made some economy blocks. I think I’m going to need at least 60, this brings my total to 25.
I also made an oven cooked butternut squash and saffron risotto, but I over cooked it. It’s yum, but stodgy-on the upside, arancini tomorrow
One ATC done and ready to mail! 
Strong starts everybody, I’m so happy to see your pictures!
I love the idea of this craftalong! I don’t think I’d be able to maintain a thing a day, but I do look forward to seeing everyone’s pictures!
Unless it’s a Church of the Snake (is there a pro-snake saint? all I can think of is the St Patrick myth…) then probably this would be a pretty popular separation.
We have made our large cookies in the newly seasoned tiny cast iron pans, and I am working on tying the last pendants for little suncatcher kits for my kid’s birthday “swap” (take home party projects in a bag.)
Today I used the rest of my holiday card scraps to freehand cut some gift tags:
And decorated (a bit late) the January landing page for my workbook/journal:
It’s all tissue paper glued to the pages, then a bit of paint to darken the letters.
So far today I did another 10 rows on my blanket project. It’s not super exciting, but i really want it to be ready ship for hopefully a Valentines day delivery.
Cookies!
I worked late again today and came home to find the girl child struggling with her first ever batch of choco-chippies. They are delicious! Though they ate up my crafting time for this evening. At least I’m getting something done, lol.
I cut more fabric today! About 75% done. Next step will be figuring out what I’m going to do with all my scraps!
I’m trying really hard to hold off baking cookies until the weekend, but these are not. helping. 
She was so funny, in a right panic when I walked through the door. I admire her courage to just into new things she’s never tried with confidence she will do great but, lol, a read through and making sure you choose a recipe that doesn’t call for tools we haven’t got might be a good idea. We ended up with a soupy overly pureed batter since it went through the food processor instead of a stand mixer. They called for oil but all we’ve got is olive and rock hard coconut which was never getting creamed by hand! Still tasty though.
bahahaha. i have no words. or all the words.
